Tax Practitioners Board Members
MATTHEW ADDISION
Matthew Addison is currently the Executive Director of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers Ltd (ICB).
He has been instrumental in representing the bookkeeping profession during the consultation process on the tax agent services legislation, and is a member of the Australian Treasury Standard Business Reporting Advisory Forum. He is a member of the ATO BAS Agents Advisory Group. He is a registered tax agent as Managing Director and principal of Addisons Productivity Solutions, a consulting, bookkeeping, accounting software (MYOB Certified Consultant) support business. He takes an active role in professional (agents, bookkeepers and consultants) education, seminars and training.
CYNTHIA COLEMAN
Professor Cynthia Coleman is an adjunct professor of Taxation Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney.
She is the editor of Australian Tax Forum, which specialises in tax policy, and also holds positions as an editorial board member of other tax and commercial law journals. She is a governor of the Australian Tax Research Foundation. She is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and admitted to practice in the High Court. She has been involved with professional bodies such as the Tax Institute and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in both technical and educational roles. She has also been a community representative for the Australian Taxation Office’s quality assurance program. Tax administration is her major research interest.
GORDON COOPER AM
Professor Gordon Cooper is a registered tax agent and the Principal of Cooper & Co Chartered Accountants, a Sydney-based specialist tax consulting firm.
He is also a principal of Cooper & Collins (Central Coast) Pty Ltd, a NSW Central Coast firm of chartered accountants which specialises in the audit of self-managed superannuation funds. In addition he is a visiting professorial fellow at the Australian School of Taxation at the University of New South Wales.
His previous roles include President of the Tax Institute of Australia and a governor of the Tax Research Foundation.
Current positions include: Chairman of the Australian Branch of the International Fiscal Association, Chairman of the Australasian Branch of the UK Chartered Institute of Taxation, Patron of the Australasian Tax Teachers Association and Chair of the Challis Taxation Discussion Group.
He was a member of the NSW Tax Agents’ Board and has been involved in the development of the new tax agent services legislation since 1992. In recognition of his services to the tax profession and to the community, he was awarded membership of the Order of Australia in the 2003 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
ROGER COTTON
Roger Cotton has extensive management and leadership experience.
He has held a series of senior management roles including Chief Executive Officer of the National Institute of Accountants from 2001 to 2009. He was also the founding CEO of the Australian Association of Accounting Technicians, and a director from 2006 to 2009. He is the current Chairman of InterPrac Financial Services Limited, Immediate Past Chairman of Southern Rocklobster Limited and a past director of the Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia. His advisory roles include being a member of the Financial Reporting Panel and his recent appointment to the Board of Governors of Braemar College in Victoria.
CHRISTOPHER M DOOGAN AM
Chris Doogan is Chairman of a public company financial institution, Community CPS Australia Limited, which has a wholly owned subsidiary providing accounting, taxation and financial planning services.
He was formerly Chairman of a health insurance company, Australian Health Management Group Limited, and Chairman of Law Courts Limited (a company owned by the Commonwealth of Australia and the State of New South Wales). He is currently a director of the Centre for Customs and Excise Studies, an adjunct professor of law, the Principal Member of the Commonwealth Statutory Fishing Rights Allocation Review Panel, a member of the ACT Legal Practitioners Admission Board and a member of the ACT Rugby Judiciary. He is a barrister and solicitor and holds degrees in administration and law (honours), is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a Fellow of the Australasian Mutuals Institute, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a past Defence Fellow and the independent chairman of two court audit committees and a member of a third. He formerly performed a number of CEO roles in both the public and private sectors and has extensive experience as a director on numerous company boards over the last twenty-five years.
GEORGE FOX
George Fox is currently a solicitor and holds a number of senior advisory roles including chairing the Dispute Management Foundation and University of Southern Queensland’s board governance committee.
Other leadership positions have included Law Reform Commissioner in Fiji, President of the Queensland Law Society and Chair of the Queensland Tax Agents’ Board. As a practicing mediator and academic, he has been helping to shape mediation law in Australia and abroad. He is an adjunct professor at Murdoch University and the University of Southern Queensland.
DALE PINTO
Professor Dale Pinto is Professor of Taxation Law and the Head of the Taxation Department at the School of Business Law and Taxation at Curtin University.
Dale has been a member of CPA Australia’s Centre of Tax Excellence and is currently the Chair of the Tax Institute’s Education, Examinations and Quality Assurance Board (EEQAB). He is the author/co-author of numerous books, refereed articles and national and international conference papers, and is on the editorial board of a number of journals as well as being editor-in-chief of several refereed journals, including the Journal of the Australasian Tax Teachers’ Association. He is also a registered tax agent and in 2011 was invited to join the WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Tax Reform Industry Working Group as well as the Board of Taxation’s Advisory Panel for an initial term to 31 December 2011.
RUSSELL SMITH
Russell Smith is a registered BAS agent and is the Managing Director and Principal Accountant at Carruss Consultants.
He chaired the Bookkeeping Industry Group, is a member of the BAS Agent Advisory Group and a member of various bookkeeping forums. He has long been involved in the development of the tax agent services regime, representing the interests of bookkeepers and potential BAS agents in the consultation process. He takes an active interest in professional education and leads a wide range of advisory groups, seminars, workshops and training sessions.
YVONNE SNEDDON
Ms Yvonne Sneddon is a professional non-executive director with 15 years experience as a board member in both the private and public sectors.
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors. Yvonne is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants, with over 25 years experience providing financial services and business advice to both public and private sector clients.
Yvonne was a partner at Deloitte and before that a partner at Ferrier Hodgson. She was a registered tax agent for more than 10 years. She left private practice in 2004 to focus on her career as a professional company director.
Among her appointments, Yvonne is a member of the boards of Sage Group Ltd, Sage Automation Pty Ltd, South Australian Financing Authority, Motor Accident Commission and Rural Solutions. She is also the Chair of Flinders Reproductive Medicine Pty Ltd.